Mediating Dangerously

The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution

Kenneth Cloke (Center for Dispute Resolution, Santa Monica, California)

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English

Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
06 March 2001

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Management & management techniques

Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of themediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change.

Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical andtraditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places ofdispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamentalchange is the desired result. It means opening wounds and lookingbeneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, andexploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy,domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach adeeper level of transformational change.

Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals howto advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniquesof mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul and to revealthe subtle and sensitive engine that drives the process of personaland organizational transformation. This book is a major newcontribution to the literature of conflict resolution that willinspire and educate professionals in the field for years to come.

By: Kenneth Cloke (Center for Dispute Resolution Santa Monica California)
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 576g
ISBN: 9780787953560
ISBN 10: 0787953563
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 06 March 2001
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Author Kenneth Cloke, director of the Center for Dispute Resolution in Santa Monica, California, has been a mediator, arbitrator, university professor, judge, counselor, coach, consultant, trainer, and designer of resolutions systems for over thirty years. He is the author of several books, including Resolving Conflicts at Work and Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict (both with Joan Goldsmith, Jossey-Bass, 2000).

Reviews for Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution

Mediating Dangerously is, as all of Cloke's books, a book to buy. (The Texas Mediator, January 2002) Cloke writes with passion... (Dispute Resolution Journal, October 2002)